Gluster Announces Beta Availability of GlusterFS 3.3

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gluster, the leading provider of scale-out,
open source storage solutions, today announced the beta release of
GlusterFS 3.3. This latest version of Gluster's innovative file system
provides a system for data storage that enables users to access the same
data as an object and as a file, simplifying management and controlling
storage costs. Available on-premise, for virtual machines, and in public
and private cloud environments, Gluster's software-only storage
technology delivers the first true unified file and object data storage.
Users can now have simultaneous access to data as a file and as an
object, delivering the benefits of both.

“Enterprises are increasingly looking for a storage solution that can
accelerate their adoption of the cloud and many have been hesitant
because of the lack of storage technologies enabling them to do this,”
said Deni Connor, founder, Storage Strategies NOW. “Gluster is
continuing to innovate and raise the competitive bar as they release new
capabilities within their file system. GlusterFS 3.3, with unified file
and object storage technology, is key to enterprise customer’s ability
to adopt and deploy cloud storage solutions.”

GlusterFS 3.3 allows users to access data as objects from an Amazon S3
compatible interface and access files from a NAS interface including NFS
and CIFS. In addition to decreasing cost and making it faster and easier
to access object data, GlusterFS also delivers massive scalability, high
availability and replication of object storage. For infrastructure as a
service offerings, GlusterFS 3.3 enables organizations to build their
own Amazon-like storage offering for their customers. Enterprises can
use GlusterFS to accelerate the process of preparing applications for
the cloud, simplify new application development for cloud computing
environments, and backup from data center unified file and object to
Amazon Web Services (AWS) or within the private cloud.

“Traditional object storage technologies have not been widely deployed
because their approach has not integrated well with legacy applications
– leaving 95 percent of those applications unable to easily migrate to
the cloud. Additionally, NAS has been unable to scale across the
Internet to the public cloud. GlusterFS 3.3 takes a unified approach via
full integration of file and object storage within the file system,”
said AB Periasamy, co-founder and CTO of Gluster. “We are the first to
solve both the NAS scaling and legacy application integration with
object storage problems. We listen carefully to our customers and
community and we are excited to deliver this next step of unified
storage technology for virtual and cloud environments.”

Infrastructure service providers can use GlusterFS 3.3 to offer access
to both file and object storage, and enterprises will be able to use
this latest release to ease the migration of legacy, file-based
applications to object storage for use in the cloud. In both public and
private clouds, Gluster enables enterprises to scale on demand to
petabytes of capacity and GB/s of throughput on commodity physical and
cloud hardware, yielding unrivalled economics in the process. Gluster
also enables enterprises to scale out availability on-demand, enabling
both Synchronous N-way replication within the data center and across
high-speed links, and Asynchronous Geo-Replication between data centers
across WANs. For public clouds such as Amazon Web Services (AWS),
GlusterFS is packaged in an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for deployment in
the AWS cloud. The Gluster AMI is the only way to deploy
high-availability storage within AWS and deliver predictable high
performance during rapidly changing and demanding workloads. For private
clouds, the Gluster Virtual Storage Appliances integrate GlusterFS into
a virtual machine for deployment on popular hypervisor environments such
as Red Hat KVM, VMware ESX and Citrix Xen and run on the enterprise’s
choice of certified hardware platforms.

Gluster’s software-only solutions let enterprises deploy storage the
same way they deploy computing today--as a virtualized, commoditized,
and scale-on-demand pool, radically improving storage economics.
Combined with the customer’s choice of commodity computing and storage
resources, Gluster can scale-out to petabytes of capacity and GB/s of
throughput at a fraction of the cost of proprietary systems. Gluster
ensures high availability with n-way replication both within and between
public and private data centers. Gluster is deployable both on-premise
(as a virtual appliance or bare-metal software appliance) and in public
clouds such as Amazon Web Services. Gluster is the primary author and
maintainer of the open-source GlusterFS software, which has been
downloaded over 200,000 times.

About Gluster

Gluster is the leading provider of open source storage solutions for
public, private and hybrid clouds. Over 150 enterprises worldwide have
used Gluster in commercial deployments ranging from a few terabytes to
multiple petabytes, across the most demanding applications in digital
media delivery, healthcare, Internet, energy and biotech. Gluster is
privately-held and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Visit us at www.gluster.com.